did too, and says even today to let them sit there. that's "hardball" for in and out. good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from miami, florida. 28 days until the 2012 election. the polls are tightening and the youth vote in the state of florida could be the savior for the president in this state. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. we need you fired up. i love you back, but i need you voting. >> on the the last day for voter registration in ohio and florida and 15 other states, the president is pounding the stump as the romney lie tour continues. >> you have to scratch your head when the president talks about big bird. >> the state of the race. another billionaire ceo is threatening his employees to vote romney or else.

>> i'm the ceo of the largest timeshare company in the world. >> you won't believe this story. paul ryan pulls the plug on a republican talking point. governor brian swhooiter. >> why democrats need to take a page from the wisdom of george bush. >> fool me once, shame on you. you can't get fooled again. >> good to have you with us again. thanks for watching. the 2012 election looks like it's going to go down to the wire. if you have a seat belt, put it on. the polls are tightening once again. it's a pretty clear reaction to last week's debate. the real clear politics average

of all polls show mitt romney taking a .7% lead on president obama. the race was this tight a month ago. right after the republican national convention and right before the democratic national convention. we have been here before. the race has followed this pattern for awhile. when mitt romney makes gain, the polls tend to show the candidates tied. but if you listen to right-wingers like ann colter, this race is already over. >> i think it is over. the reason i think it's over, of course, i thought it was over last week and the week before. romney is going to win. the reason he's going to win is this was the most-watched debate since 1980 when ronald reagan ran against carter and there was only one debate that year. >> fox news is pulling out all the stops. check out the electoral prediction map fox trotted out today. look at the red states. they gave mitt romney solid democratic states like new mexico and pennsylvania. really? polls should be a snapshot of the current state of the race

and there's no doubt mitt romney is benefitting from his debate performance last week. but over "the new york times," the forecast shows president obama still holds a 70% chance of winning the election. the percentage is back in line with the state of the race before the political conventions. president obama made some gains after the dnc. mitt romney erased those gains in the debate. so the race is back to where it was in august. eight years ago today, cnn poll after the first presidential poll put john kerry on top of george bush by one percentage point. the race is close. this should surprise no one in america. every vote is going to count. there's been bipartisan agreement about a close race for months. >> this race, as we say in the south, it's as tight as a tick on a dog and it's going to stay

that way until november. >> nothing is set in concrete. >> this is a very tight race. we've always believed that there's very little elasticity in the election. >> when a race is this close, a small number of states become pretty dog gone important. no state is more important than the state of ohio with 18 electoral votes. three polls showed different results. one had mitt romney up, one president obama up. it's a vital state and the the candidates are going to have to fight for it hard. president obama held his 17th ohio campaign rally this evening. today is the last day of voter registration in the buckeye state and the president pushed that message. >> ohio, ooism asking you for your vote. if you're willing to stand with me and work with me, knock on some doors and make some phone calls for me, we'll win franklin county again.

we'll win ohio again. we'll win this election again. we'll finish what we started and we'll remind the world why the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. >> mitt romney knows his chances of winning the presidency are slim without ohio, regardless of what the national polls say. romney scheduled multiple events in the state of ohio over the next several days as well as events in other swing states. he was in iowa today making the hard sell for voters to abandon president obama. >> i want to ask you for a commitment. that's for you to find one person who voted for barack obama last time and convince him to come our team. maybe more than one. i need your help to do that. >> romney is striking while the iron is hot. he's continuing to jab president obama in his stump speech. >> these are tough times with serious issues. so you have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week talking about saving

big bird. >> this new aggressiveness was influenced by those closest to home. romney's sons have taken a more creative role in crafting his campaign. josh romney showed the aggressive romney spirit today when he implied president obama was a liar. >> we'd say the same lie over and over. my dad learned then not to believe it. we didn't go to any of the formal debate preparation, we did the hard stuff. as a father he learned how to debate. >> the romney campaign's aggression highlights president obama's lack of aggression during the last debate. i spoke with obama supporters who were still puzzled by whooi the president just didn't take it to romney on a number of issues and do it with force. he has good reason to do so. there will be other opportunities. the hidden 47% video, those comments still are a huge weakness for mitt romney.

pollsters gave advice to the obama team about how voters perceived the video. the 47% critique is very important because it says that romney doesn't understand their lives. they are looking for him to offer things that will impact their lives. mitt romney still has a difficult time answering for his comments. he was pressed about them today on cnn. >> i think it's always a pairless course for a candidate to start talking about the mathematicsover the election. it's abc how to get 100% of the americans to have a more bright and prosperous future. >> with the race neck and neck, all eyes turned to the presidential debate on thursday night. joe biden has the opportunity to tell the truth. what mitt romney will do to the middle class in this country.

had this may not be a make or break moment for the president and his campaign, but you have to agree that it is a chance for the vice president of the united states to change the tone and the focus of this campaign. not a game-changer, but a course correction. people that i spoke with on friday in ohio were disappointed in the president's debate performance. it's ironic that the same attitude was portrayed on two different locations at memorial university today and also florida international university. people are puzzled why the president didn't come out strong. they were expecting more. comments came to me like we're out fighting for the president, fighting for every vote, and the other night it didn't look like he was fighting for us. what does this mean? it means every stump speech is going to be recorded and reviewed over and over again. this means that the american people are digesting who wants to be president of the united states and who wants to lead. the president's great on the stump, but to miss an opportunity with that kind of a

platform will be viewed as a gross mistake. get your cell phones out. tonight's question, who has the advantage in the race right now? text a for president obama and b for mitt romney to 622639. you can also go to our blog. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. i'm joined by eugene robinson, msnbc analyst. also with us tonight is joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com and author of the book "what's the matter with white people?" eugene, you first. this poll shifting, this pickup by mitt romney, is this all a result of what happened last week in the debate? >> basically, yes. look, it seems to be significant enough shift that you have to figure there was some sort of demand behind it. there must have been some percentage of people who were

wondering -- who were waivering and wondering if maybe didn't think mitt romney had it in him and he proved to them, at least to their satisfaction during the debate, that he did. he kind of made himself eligible to be president for more people than he was eligible before. and that's a significant move in this race. >> joan, what's your calculation on what's unfolding here? liberals think the sky is falling. >> they are right to be worried. we knew this was always going to be a close race. sadly, this country is really divided. not quite down the middle. i think our side has more, but it's very close. and i agree with gene. mitt romney that was introduced to 58 million voters the other night was a man we have never seen before. he was warm, he was gracious, he

had an ease about him, he was moderate, he didn't scare people, and i think he brought waivering republicans back into the fold and gave a rational for his candidacy. people were pulling their hair out in the week before. i like the pent up demand because people wanted to believe in. president obama and joe biden, of course, can correct this. i think it's very correctable. >> it's all about motivation. you want to see your guy out there going after it, never backing down, always being on the forefront of the issues and never sidestepping. this was just such a missed opportunity. now the race is tight. many liberals think it shouldn't be right now, but it is. should the focus be on more than ohio? or is ohio the ball game right now? >> ohio is a big part of the

ball game, but you look at today's polls, the focus has to be on more than ohio. there are other states where president obama was ahead where he's got to hold that lead now. and so he can't spend the whole time in ohio. but there are two issues, and you identified the other one. one is firing up the base. mitt romney fired up his base during the debate and president obama did not. the other issue is the waiverers who were still undecided or who are persuadable and romney did a better job persuading during the debate. i agree with joan. this is not the end of the world. this is not something that's uncorrectable. but it it needs to be corrected. >> well, it could start with a good debate by joe biden coming up on thursday night. joan, how important is it? >> it's really important. i think what he needs to do is

tie paul ryan around mitt romney's neck like a mill stone. paul ryan's policies are deadly unpopular and he's basically been allowed to kind of get away with it and paper over what he believes and what mitt romney believes. but paul ryan is just a terrible deficit for the ticket. the other thing is it is a base election. when we get to this point when we're looking at likely voters, ours are less likely to turn out. they are the young, they are the disadvantaged, they are the new citizens who haven't made a habit of voting. if we see an electorate like in 2008, barack obama wins. if we saw the one from 2010, he loses. so we talk about the independent swing voters all the time but think this is coming back down to the base for both sides. >> i think the obama team has been brilliant on the basics throughout all of this. but one of the basics they can't get away from is the 47% video. i think that is who mitt romney is. and i don't think they can allow him to escape these comments.

he said these comments behind closed doors to people he needed their support and money and it's just a condemnation of who he is. then of course, he supports the ryan plan. great to have both of you with us tonight. two of the best, no question about it. thanks for being on "the ed show." remember to answer tonight's question. share your thoughts on twitter @edshow. coming up, today was the final day to register voters in some key swing states. annette tadao will join me soon to talk about the youth vote. that could be the key for president obama here in the state of florida. we're right back. stay with us. swhooiter is. you can prevent gas with beano meltaways,

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young voters could be the key to a victory for president obama. annette taddeo joins me to discuss the youth vote and enthusiasm leading up to this election.

paul ryan e gets honest on gun laws while the national rifle association continues to spread lies about the president's policies. we'll have all the details. and as the polls shift after last week's debate, will we get fooled again by mitt romney's lies? we'll look at what a romney presidency would mean for americans. share your thoughts with us on facebook and twitter using @edshow.

we're comi welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. voter registration closed today in four key states including ohio and florida and for president obama to win a close election, he will need the youth vote the way he had in 2008. some of the students at the florida international university told us what this election means to them. >> i just feel like students should all get out here and go and see what each candidate has to say and really know what they are voting for because this plays a big part in our lives. >> students have are having a hard time paying for school so voting is important for education purposes. >> i don't think cutting taxes or preking the wealthy is the way to go. >> i was lucky enough to find a job at the beginning of the summer, but it's really difficult to find a job when you're a college student. >> interesting. those students were in line to get tickets for president obama's speech later this week at the university of miami. in 2008, senator obama beat senator john mccain by 2 to 1 in

the margin in the youth vote in this country. it's crucial for the president to get similar numbers this time around if he's going to win the state of florida. of course, to vote they must be registered and voter registration drives have been underway for months. according to statistics from the zx 2.8 million people are registered as independents or with a third party. the numbers are interesting, but it means nothing if there's no emotional component that will motivate them to do it. this is why the debates are so important in today's information culture. there must be a real emotional appeal by president obama if he's to succeed in getting these voters out to the polls. the best registration drive imaginable will not do a thing if there isn't this gut feeling that these young folks must get out and vote because they can make a difference. let's turn to annette taddeo,

member of the democratic party and one of the leaders in this portion of florida. the youth vote, i don't want to oversell it, but everywhere i go today down here, that's all people are talking about. are the young people going to engage? >> i think so. we have seen great numbers in registration numbers. i will tell you that i have a feeling that although today was the last day in the next few days we'll see the reports from the obama campaign as to their registration numbers and you'll be shocked. they have registered an unbelievable amount of people in the state of florida. i think that everybody is going to be pleasantly surprised. the next step is to get those people to vote. >> did the debate have an effect on their attitude? >> you know, i don't know that many of them were actually watching it. maybe a little bit, but i will tell you most of those, you were

talking about the independent rej strered voters. most of those are hispanics, are kids that don't know whether to go on the democratic or republican side. we have found that a lot of hispanics, you were at florida international university where a lot of the students are hispanic, they don't identify with either party. we have not done a good job of democrats of letting them know what it means to be a democrat. >> the hispanic vote is key to president obama's success here in florida. you're saying that the kids don't seem to be party pickers. it's going to come down to the candidate? >> absolutely. it's not just the kids. overall, the reason why the independents are winning in florida is because they are picking the independent party. democrats are still winning over republicans, i want to be clear. however, independents are winning because they just don't

understand one party over the other. however, the independents vote democratic. they lean democratic. >> here's the spanish language ad that president obama has taken out that's playing in florida. very interesting. here it is. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> how effective is that? >> it's very effective. i tell you, i usually don't get inspired by ads. but that one inspired me. not only because he's speaking spanish, which is unprecedented. we've never seen a president do that. but it's the ad itself. the fact that he says it shows how he really feels about dreamers. how he really feels that no dream is unattainable in this country.

>> let's talk about the kids and the dream act and them stepping out, identifying what their status is. are they afraid to do it? >> with the new plan that obama put into effect, only 87,000 of them have actually applied for deferred action, which is the deferred action that the president put in place. >> so they are afraid that it president obama might lose and mitt romney, they don't know where he stands. >> yes. i want to put the numbers in context. 1.7 million of them is estimated qualify for the deferred action. only 87,000 have applied. and it is believed that it is because they are afraid that if romney wins, he will then not keep this program in place and

worse, they will then be on the record. they are afraid. >> and it's a trust issue. annette taddeo, thank you for joining us. coming up, paul ryan's moment of truth. find out what he said and why the gun lobby won't be happy about it. and the nuns are back on the bus. the group kicks off another leg of their anti-poverty tour. and the presidential campaign, stay tuned. you're watching "the ed show" live from miami, florida. we're right back.

welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching. in the past few months we reported on paul ryan's lies about medicare, the budget and auto rescue are right in there as well. but we have good news tonight. paul ryan had an honest moment. he finally managed to tell the truth about gun control in america. ryan gave his stunning answer about guns during this interview with a reporter in flint, michigan, yesterday. the interview ended abruptly. it was awkward and the video went viral. but here is the most important part, i think. the reporter asked the vice presidential candidate if guns are a problem in this country. here's paul ryan defending president obama.

>> no. if you take a look at the gun laws, i don't think even president obama is proposing more gun laws. we have good gun laws. we have to make sure we enforce our laws. >> oops. not supposed to say that. the president is not proposing any new gun laws. in fact, the president has been widely criticized for expanding gun rights to allow guns in national parks and amtrak trains. ryan usually lies about the president's intentions. he said the president's history in his party lead me to be concerned about what he would be like in a second term. ryan's been selling the nra's conspiracy theory for years. he happily campaigns with people like wayne laughair who thinks the president is one election away from shutting down every gun shop in this country. >> if president obama is reelected, we'll see an anti-freedom rampage in this country like we have never seen before.

>> a rampage. the nra is repeating this story in their new campaign ad. they are spending more than $1 million on air time. the ad is running in four swing states. here in florida, ohio, virginia, and wisconsin. there have been mass shootings in all four of those states recently. wisconsin is still reeling from the temple shooting in august. meanwhile, the nra says the president of the united states hasn't taken away guns because he's waiting for his second term and that's when he's going to do it? it will be interesting to see if voters believe this fairy tale. by the admission of the vice presidential candidate for the republicans, barack obama has not offered up any new gun legislation. but it cuts to the cultural issues of guys, guns, and god in the heartland in america. i'm joined by montana governor brian schweitzer. good to have you with us. you've heard the story before.

how damaging is it and how many holes does it shoot, ironically, into the conversation about the president of the united states being a gun grabber when you have paul ryan saying, well, wait a minute, he hasn't brought forth any new legislatio >> it was a slip up on his part. the gun advocates have been saying, he's going to take your guns. that's why talk to any gun dealer in america, they have had the best three and a half years they have had since clinton was in the white house when they used to say that about him as well. you can't get ammo anymore because dealers get their boxes of ammo in and people rush in and get it because they have signs and salesman are saying this president is going to take away your guns tomorrow. no, next week. but he's going to take them away. so the gun dealers in america are having banner sales every day of the week because tomorrow, next week, next month, next term, he's going to take

away your guns. >> but the nra are powerful. they have a lot of money to spend and they are targeting the swing states. will they be effective? >> we don't hear much from the nra until it's election year. then they are advocating for republicans. sometimes you wonder if they shouldn't be called the national republican advocates. >> is president obama going to get rid of the second amendment if he wins a second term on november 6th? >> no. that ain't going to happen. you can count on it. if he was going to do it, he would have done it during the first three years. clinton said he was going to do it and he didn't. we have responsible gun owners all over america. we will enforce the laws we have and president obama is not going to take your ammo away and not your gun away. >> in the recall election in wisconsin, the nra really went after tom barrett saying he was going to take away their guns and he had a bad record. why is it in rural america that firearms becomes aissue down the stretch? it looks like it's going to rear its ugly head again.

>> folks like having guns. not because they are holding up liquor stores. i own a number of guns. we like to hunt and have guns and target practice. and we're not looking at attacking anybody. but the bottom line is the attack is by the republicans and their advocates at the nra who are trying to say every time there's a democrat running for office we're going to take away their guns. maybe during the last 100 years, we would, but we haven't. we're not going to in the future. we respect the amendment rights. we respect the constitution and you'll keep your guns. if you want to go buy more ammo and more guns and yammer that someone is going to take away your guns, that's fine. if that's a reason to guy another gun, do it. but i don't think president obama has proposed to do anything except to expand guns in national parks. >> didn't mitt romney sign a permanent assault weapons ban while he was governor of

massachusetts? why doesn't that matter? >> not only that, he raised fees on guns. he raised tuition at the fastest rate in the country. he raised taxes. and when he left office in massachusetts, people somehow forgot he left the people in massachusetts with the largest debt per capita in america. now he says he's going to do good with money by cutting taxes by 20% and spending $2 trillion more on the military and $716 billion, even more than ryan or obama proposed, in medicare. i don't know how he does his math, but somebody ought to buy him a $2 calculator. >> governor schweitzer, great to have you with us. the best thing to help prevent crime in cities is to bring opportunity in the inner cities. teach people good discipline, good character. that is civil society. that's what charities and churches do.

>> paul ryan and mitt romney say churches and charities are the only antidote to poverty. another is ordering to vote for mitt romney. we'll read the letter where he admits it. and which tape is a better window into mitt romney's window for america, the denver debate or the 47% tape? ahead, my commentary on why this country can't afford to get fooled again.

welcome back to "the ed show." the group nuns on the bus is hitting the road tomorrow kicking off another leg of their antipoverty tour. this time in the state of ohio. the organization has invited mitt romney and paul ryan as well as president obama and vice president biden to discuss the issue of poverty in cincinnati. so far neither has accepted the invitation.

in the meantime, paul ryan isn't backing down from his budget which would gut the nation's social safety net. had proposed cutting from nutritional programs that would help the poor. ryan has credited his catholic faith for helping shape his proposals and says churches and charities should pick up the slack for the government. he didn't back down from that belief in an interview with a local abc affiliate in michigan. >> the best thing to prevent violent crime is to bring opportunity in the inner cities. help teach people good discipline, good character, that is civil society. that's what charities and churches do to help one another make sure they realize the value in one another. >> but the truth is many charitable organizations are stretched to their limits. a study from the nonpartisan group bread for the world points

out the flaws in ryan's plan. ryan's proposed cuts to the nation's food stamp program would mean every church in america would have to come up with approximately $50,000 dedicated to feeding people. not only that, they'd have to come up with $50,000 every year for the next ten years. would your church or house of worship be able to come up with that kind of money so the wealthy can get their tax breaks? joining me tonight is sister simone campbell, leader of the nuns on the bus. sister, good to have you with us tonight. let's do the math, if we can, for just a moment. do you believe most churches have an extra $50,000 lying around to pick up the tab that ryan describes himself as a man of faith? how do we get through all of this? do the churches have the kind of money to follow the plan that he's putting forth?

>> absolutely not. i mean, it's really shocking to think that he believes that churches can do this. what he doesn't know is how hard people are working right now, how much they depend on the food subsidies, just even to get food on family tables and how churches are stretched already in food pantries, feeding programs, all kinds of places already giving so much. this $50,000 for each house of worship would be an additional amount to what they have already raised. it's impossible. >> do people in the inner city need to be taught good discipline and good character. that's what paul ryan believes. >> i know. it's pretty shocking because he clearly has not been where i've been. every day in washington, d.c., i see the folks, the working poor, out early on the bus to get to their jobs, the folks that work late cleaning and janitors and the various office buildings. i see tremendous discipline.

and i see an incredible desire to really make a go for their families. he just is out of touch. that's why we invited him to come to cincinnati and meet some of our people, but apparently they are not coming. >> speaking of out of touch, you told e.j. dionne that the president has gotten disconnected from the people he cares about. explain what you're talking about. you think the president is disconnected? does he need to reconnect? >> that's why we invited him to cincinnati tomorrow, but i think the debate last week evidence that he got really into his policy side when really the conversation needs to be about the people that are struggling in our society. tomorrow we're hosting one man from cleveland, wilbur hughes, who is raising six girls by himself. he's working hard, he's making

ends meet. but it's really hard with a family and being a single parent, but he's so disciplined and so focused. and his girls are doing really well in school. >> why did you choose ohio? everybody knows how critical ohio is. why ohio? >> well, actually, it was the sisters here. we went through ohio in the original nuns on the bus, but what happened here was that the sisters said this is such partisan divide we need to lift up the 100%. we need to let people know what the struggle is. i came to be supportive of my sisters. they created this nuns on bus ohio. >> do you think you're having an impact? >> absolutely. absolutely. people in the united states are standing up. they are feeling eneenergized. we can talk to each other. it's a tremendous moment when we can talk about people in poverty, people in the middle class and not call names, not try to be fearful, not drive wedges between each other. this is for all of us. this is being we the people.

>> sister, thank you for joining us tonight on "the ed show." keep up the fabulous work. coming up, a multimillionaire ceo who's building himself the largest house in the united states of america tells his employees if president obama is reelected, you might not have a job. stay with us.

coming up next, a billionaire ceo claims he's going to be forced to play off employees if president obama is reelected. and it's not the first time he's tried to influence his employees' votes. and in the big finish, the real romney plan for this country is not the one he laid out in last week's debate. my commentary on romney's america is ahead. you can listen to my radio show on channel 127 monday through friday, noon t3:00 p.m. follow me on twitter @edshow. we're coming back to miami. stay with us. we're right back.

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welcome back to "the ed show". another day, another boss threatening to fire his employees if president obama is reelected. meet multimillionaire david seagull, ceo and founder of west gate resorts, the largest timeshare company in the world. he told reuters in july west gate is the most profitable it's ever been and he recently resumed construction on his 90,000 square foot mansion. but yesterday he told his employees if obama wins, i'll have to let you go. gawker obtained the e-mail he sent out to 7,000 of his employees which he admits borrows heavily from a chain letter circulated before the 2008 elections and in it he says in spite of the challenges we have faced, the good news is the economy doesn't currently pose a

threat to your job. be what does threaten your job is another four years of the same presidential administration. he goes on to argue that the obama administration has demonized the 1%, the true job creators and any increase in taxes would require him to lay off taxes. he just doesn't have enough money. and he ends with this thinly-vailed threat straight from the republican makers and takers textbook. "i can no longer support a system that penalized the productive and gives to the unproductive. my motivation to work and to provide jobs will be destroyed and with it so will your opportunities. if that happens, you can find me in the caribbean sitting on a beach, under a palm tree, retired with no employees to worry about." hold it right there. he worries about his employees.

is he alone? does he care? of course, he cares. but this man is greedy. he can't help himself. he can't help hipgs for how much he hates president obama. this is only time he used employees for pawns to advance his own political agenda, but it's not. pe takes credit for george w. bush being elected in 2000. whenever i saw a negative article about al gore, u put it in the paychecks. i had managers do a survey. if they liked bush, we made them register to e vote, but not if they liked gore. on election day, we made sure everyone voting for bush got to the polls. i didn't know he would win by 527 votes. afterward, we did a survey among the employees to find out who voted who wouldn't have otherwise. 1,000 of them said so.

the haves and the have nots, where are we in america? this election is about that. i asked who has the advantage? 77% said obama. 23% said mitt romney. coming up, mitt romney is trying to fool the american people by shaking the etch a sketch by line. tonight i'm calling the candidate out to set the record straight. my commentary about what the country would look like if this guy is in the oval office.

there's an old saying in tennessee. i know it's in texas. it it says fool me once, shame on you. we can't get fooled again. >> george w. bush famously said we can't get fooled again. i thought i would never see that sound byte again, at least in one of my broadcasts. but it fits right now. are we going to get fooled again? earlier we talked about the polls and mitt romney on the move.

mitt romney spent 90 minutes on the stage lying about everything he claimed to stand for prior to the debate. he lied about his tax plan, he lied about his health care plan, he lied about medicare and medicaid and social security, he lied about deregulation, he lied about jobs, he lied about education. think about this. after campaigning for 18 months on a tax plan for the job creators there that will reduce their taxes 20% on personal income, cut capital gains taxes and business taxes, romney stood on stage with president obama and denied all of that. he told the american people that he really didn't have a plan, which my friends, is completely a 180. after saying it, every campaign stop for 18 months that he would repeal obama care on day one, he stood before the american people and said his plan would take care of preexisting conditions. after the debate, his campaign admitted it would not. romney says his health care plan, which passed in massachusetts, would be good for states. but somehow when president obama passed the same plan designed to be available to the states, that's not good enough. romney says he will repeal obama care and replace it. although, he just does not deliver any of those details.

he lied about medicare. he says had his plan would impact those over 55, but that's a lie. repealing obama care will immediately cost those on medicare more for prescription drugs. for those under 55 years of age, he's going to give you a voucher and let you negotiate with insurance companies. ever negotiate with an insurance company? can you imagine negotiating when you're 85 years old and need a hip replacement? he lied about deregulating the bank industry. he lied when he said that we would become energy independent through more drilling? he lied when he said half of the green energy companies had gone bankrupt. he lied saying president obama's

plan would kill 700,000 jobs. americans, we get the government we deserve. it's been six days since mitt romney stood on that stage with president obama and lied for 90 minutes. and currently, polling shows more americans believe him. here's the famous sound byte for you again. >> there's an old saying in tennessee that says fool me once, shame on you. we can't get fooled again. >> that sound byte has a different meaning to me now. i hope it does to you as well. this is mitt romney's america. the rich get richer at the expense of the middle class and the poor in this country. older americans are on their own when it comes to health care. poor americans are at the mercy of the right-wing governors who want to go after the health care funds.